Professors’ Union at CUNY Votes to Divest From Israel
“The PSC also condemned Israel’s campaign against the terrorist group, Hamas.”
This is no surprise. CUNY has been a hotbed of anti-Israel activity for years, even before October 7th.
Campus Reform reports:
CUNY professors’ union votes to divest from Israel
The Professional Staff Congress (PSC), a professors’ union at the City University of New York (CUNY), recently passed a measure divesting from Israel.
The resolution, which was passed on Jan. 23 in a tight vote of 73-70, establishes that the PSC “shall divest its own funds from any investment vehicle that includes in its portfolio stocks and bonds of Israeli companies and Israeli government bonds no later than the end of January 2026, and shall continue in good faith to try to meet that investment objective.”
The PSC also condemned Israel’s campaign against the terrorist group, Hamas.
“Many PSC delegates oppose the Israeli government’s conduct of the war in Gaza and are concerned about how the pension funds and union dues of PSC members are invested,” PSC’s President James Davis told The Times of Israel.
The PSC previously passed a similar resolution on June 10, 2021, calling on the union to “consider PSC support” of the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions movement and calling Israel “a settler colonial state” and an “apartheid” regime.
Though CUNY’s PSC managed to pass the divestment resolution, this development goes against a larger trend that seems to indicate more and more universities are refusing to cut ties with the Jewish state.
A CUNY spokesperson has shared the following statement with Campus Reform: “Our University has consistently denounced BDS activity and we condemn the resolution passed by Professional Staff Congress delegates calling on the union to divest from Israeli companies and government bonds while recommending similar measures to the Teachers’ Retirement System pension plan. The PSC-CUNY organization does not speak for the University and this vote does not reflect the University’s position or our values. CUNY will not participate in any form of BDS activity.”
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Damn CUNY Nazis.
Back in the day, CUNY/CCNY was where working-class Jewish students got a first-class education.
Times have changed–not necessarily for the better.
https://virtualny.ashp.cuny.edu/gutter/panels/panel5.html
Does the Professors’ Union have significant funds to divest? Or is this symbolic only?
The CUNY professors better enjoy their end zone dances while they can. If the Israelis don’t get their hostages back by week’s end, there soon won’t be a Gaza left for the profs to protest about.